Stephenie Meyer · 2752 pages
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“That’s the funny thing about knowing you can’t have something. It makes you desperate.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from The Twilight Saga Complete Collection
“Throughout the vast shadowy world of ghosts and demons there is no figure so terrible, no figure so dreaded and abhorred, yet dight with such fearful fascination, as the vampire, who is himself neither ghost nor demon, but yet who partakes the dark natures and possesses the mysterious and terrible qualities of both. — Rev. Montague Summers”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from The Twilight Saga Complete Collection
“if there's no change
...
there'd be no butterflies”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from The Twilight Saga Complete Collection
“Part of me wanted to confront him and demand to know what his problem was.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from The Twilight Saga Complete Collection
“Le tomé la mano y suspiré cuando sus dedos fríos se encontraron con los míos. Su tacto trajo consigo un extraño alivio, como si estuviera dolorida y el daño hubiera cesado de repente.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from The Twilight Saga Complete Collection
“My name is Edward Cullen,” he continued. “I didn’t have a chance to introduce myself last week. You must be Bella Swan.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from The Twilight Saga Complete Collection
“And so the lion fell in love with the lamb . . . ,” he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word. “What a stupid lamb,” I sighed. “What a sick, masochistic lion.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from The Twilight Saga Complete Collection
“Mrs. Chandler shouted after us, "And I hope that was all-natural food coloring you put on my dog!”
― Lisa Lutz, quote from Curse of the Spellmans
“and do you think the new brood made it okay for Job to have seen those other sons and daughters dead, their lips shrinking to an icebox smile, or was that so much conciliatory salt on the sore, for all we know God takes us seriously, He does, you know, he blesses all our little pink toes, which he thoughtfully numbered ten, but even still we suspect that in the Big Picture we’re as fungible as cakes of soap or baskets of berries, our sense of purpose pointless as a beachball, it all pisses us off proper”
― Vanessa Place, quote from La Medusa
“Still, being alone doesn't mean you have to be miserable. In that sense it's different from losing something. You've still got yourself, even if you lose everything else. You've got to have faith in yourself and not get down just because you're on your own.”
― Yōko Ogawa, quote from The Diving Pool: Three Novellas
“because there may be a few coincidences in life, but none in crime. Everything has a motive.”
― Linda Howard, quote from Mackenzie's Mountain
“When something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, quote from High Tide in Tucson
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